puntarvolo

Updated: May 26, 2025

We shall insert it in evidence that the foppery of our ancestors was not inferior to that of our own time. "Fastidius. Good faith, Signior, now you speak of a quarrel, I'll acquaint you with a difference that happened between a gallant and myself, Sir Puntarvolo. You know him if I should name him Signor Luculento. "Punt. Luculento! What inauspicious chance interposed itself to your two lives?

Sir Walter Scott - The Monastery

A man well parted, a sufficient scholar, and travelled; who, wanting that place in the world's account which he thinks his merit capable of, falls into such an envious apoplexy, with which his judgment is so dazzled and distasted, that he grows violently impatient of any opposite happiness in another. Puntarvolo.

Various - Character Writings of the 17th Century